Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives and my next guest is the one and

only Judy Gold. Judy was the first gay stand-up that I discovered back in around 1994. She

still regularly performs all over New York and on tour. Sandra Bernhard has famously named her as her number one guest on

her Serious XM show. I've loved her forever. Hi Judy Gold!

Hi Jess, wow, that's a nice intro.

I'm so glad you didn't go on wiki and, you know, you know, I do so many podcasts.

You're a podcaster.

And sometimes you're just like, be creative with your, you know what I mean?

And so many people are just, oh, let me do, let me take the easy way out and, you know, and

I love that interest.

So I just want to I appreciate your what you

picked to say thank you well it's all like very personal to me yeah you know yeah I mean

okay first of all little peek behind the curtain. You just play tennis.

You're in Provincetown right now.

You just play tennis.

And when we hopped on Zoom, you immediately had,

what would we call that?

A little mini freak out about your appearance and like you changed your glasses and like you shook out your hair.

Yeah, so I looked at my, I just got off the tennis court and I put my, I clipped my yeah first of all that's not true I said to you are you

using video and you're like well I'm gonna so I said all right well let me just fix my hair and put on my other glasses.

I mean, seriously, that was a, you should be in the media.

No, I just wanted to make sure, you know, for the clips, I don't look like a big slop.

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